The reason it was behaving so strangely and nobody(!) could figure it out was that I had a space behind several Steam ID's in the banned.cfg.
This happened when copying some ID's from my webpage and opening the cfg file in Wordpad instead of Notes.
Thanks for all the help and insults.
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From: "Mikee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is it possible that he is running some metamod application like Admin Mod/AMX Mod that is keeping his bans in their own folder location, in addition to the banned.cfg? Just for the hell of it, once you shut down the HLDS Gameserver, delete ALL versions of banned.cfg, banned_users.cfg or any other file that has "ban" in it.
This topic is now getting old...because this issue is just not this complex. LOL!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Macleod"
nobody said anything about shutting down your computer. That isn't necessary. And no matter how sure you are that you've already tried something, do exactly what I say here and you'll be fine. If you're not, then you skipped something, and everybody should just ignore you from now on because you're braindead.
KILL THE GAME SERVER PROCESS.
Stop thinking about the computer itself as a server. When someone says server here, we're talking about the program that functions as the game server. Forget about hardware, forget about the machine. Someone says server, it means the game server program. Got it?
I think the problem here is that you've got the banned.cfg/banned_user.cfg being execed in your server.cfg file. Remove the line from your server.cfg that looks like:
exec banned.cfg or exec banned_user.cfg
Once you remove that from server.cfg, save it, and then kill the server again. Then delete that banned_user.cfg file too. THEN AND ONLY THEN should you start the server back up again. This way you don't have a banned_user.cfg file to begin with, and even if you did it won't get executed from the server.cfg file. This means you have absolutely no way of getting any old bans back. That file is the ONLY place they are EVER stored. If that file doesn't exist when your server isn't running then all your bans are gone forever. Simple as that.
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